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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
In fact I think chris mean that calling things cyg-foo was deprecated.
naming libraries cyglibfoo is appropriate.
Jorg is right in that part.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:48:56AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> >
> > > IMHO your behaviour is contra-productive, since AFAIK all
> > > Cygwin DLLs will
> > > have now a cyg prefix instead of lib.
> >
> > I am not going into any more discussion. If you read the mail list
from
> > last week.
> > Chris Faylor mentioned "cyg prefix is considered depricated...." So
ARE ALL
> > THE DLLs
> > are going to CYG PREFIX? I guess NOT.
>
> But that has nothing to do with the cyg prefix. The name of
> the dll itself is in fact not worth to discuss. The problem
> is in using _any_ other libz library besides the libz which
> is provided by the Cygwin base distro. Moving it to latest
> wouldn't be a problem but I don't think that matters.
>
> What really matters are the problems which are raised by
> providing another version of libz.a or libz.dll.a (note
> the suffix) which load another {lib|cyg|red|foo}z.dll.
>
> Corinna
>
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